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Allan Dwayne Schoenborn

Schoenborn denied transfer from B.C.

B.C. Criminal Justice Branch decides it's better for public safety for child killer to remain here

  • Jul 29, 2013
Allan Dwayne Schoenborn
FVRD Area B director Dennis Adamson.

FVRD pledges to tighten expense rules

Two FVRD directors have been subjected to an audit after they claimed a total of $42,578 for 2011 travel expenses, without receipts.

FVRD Area B director Dennis Adamson.
Sample of European fire ants collected by Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver staff to send for verification. Fire ants are very attracted to apple.

Swarming ants join list of alien invaders plaguing southwest B.C.

Hogweed, knotweed remain major targets for weed eradicators in Metro Vancouver

Sample of European fire ants collected by Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver staff to send for verification. Fire ants are very attracted to apple.
It's the third year City of Chilliwack is encouraging property owners to try a bus ride on their dime

Don’t discard the free Chilliwack bus ride coupons

The biggest expansion of the bus system is coming this fall with more service hours, stat holiday service and new "neighbourhood" routes.

It's the third year City of Chilliwack is encouraging property owners to try a bus ride on their dime
Above: After four years of longboarding down Chilliwack's roads

Education key to longboard safety: City

The city of Chilliwack is closely monitoring longboarding after serious collisions have occurred in other municipalities.

Above: After four years of longboarding down Chilliwack's roads
A crude oil tanker is escorted by tugboats out of Second Narrows. Pipeline proposals are being considered to increase heavy oil exports from Vancouver and Kitimat.

Kitimat ocean program set for oil tankers

Green MLA says ocean monitoring plan shows Ottawa intent on oil exports to Asia 'come hell or high water'

A crude oil tanker is escorted by tugboats out of Second Narrows. Pipeline proposals are being considered to increase heavy oil exports from Vancouver and Kitimat.

Chilliwack homeowner given a month to clean up

"The City is doing everything in our power to deal with this," said Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz

Blues icon Jim Byrnes is one of the featured performers at this weekend's Mission Folk Music Festival.

World music comes to Mission

Gala concert kicks off Mission Folk Music Festival on July 25

Blues icon Jim Byrnes is one of the featured performers at this weekend's Mission Folk Music Festival.
Finance Minister Mike de Jong

B.C. deficit tops $1.1 billion

Higher than forecast, despite cutting $668 million in spending. Finance Minister says lower natural gas revenues the big factor

Finance Minister Mike de Jong

Sex offender back in jail just hours after release

It didn't take Graham James Lackey long to find his way back to prison after allegedly breaching his probation conditions.

Chasity Cormier

Battling bias on the road to recovery

Third in a series, social stigma against mental illness continues to hamper people who are trying to recover in Chilliwack.

Chasity Cormier
Transportation Minister Todd Stone

No preference for B.C. shipyards

BC Ferries is calling for bids internationally to build three new medium-sized ferries

Transportation Minister Todd Stone

Home invasion suspects arrested by Abbotsford Police

Men from Chilliwack and Coquitlam to be charged with robbery, and break and enter

  • Jul 22, 2013
Firefighters cut a pathway through blackberry bushes to access the rear of a house on Trethewey Avenue that went up in flames on Sunday morning.

Chilliwack man airlifted to hospital after early-morning house fire

More than 20 firefighters worked three hours to extinguish a blaze in the 45,000 block of Trethewey Avenue Sunday morning.

Firefighters cut a pathway through blackberry bushes to access the rear of a house on Trethewey Avenue that went up in flames on Sunday morning.
Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon is the official representative of the Queen in British Columbia.

B.C.’s royal baby guest book opens

The guest book has opened at Government House for greetings to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon is the official representative of the Queen in British Columbia.
A petition that asks to change the voting rules for Cultus Lake Park Board received more than 900 signatures. But city and park board officials say the people of Chilliwack should still have a say.

Chilliwack voters should still have a say at Cultus Lake, say officials

The longstanding voting structure has created an unfair situation in Cultus Lake Park for residents say some of the Lakers.

A petition that asks to change the voting rules for Cultus Lake Park Board received more than 900 signatures. But city and park board officials say the people of Chilliwack should still have a say.
North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton (left) chairs Metro Vancouver's finance committee and is an MFA trustee. Robin Stringer (right) is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal Finance Authority of B.C.

No comparison in B.C. to bankrupt Detroit: Metro Vancouver reps

Municipal Finance Authority's unique pooled risk model one of many differences from troubled U.S. city

North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton (left) chairs Metro Vancouver's finance committee and is an MFA trustee. Robin Stringer (right) is the chief administrative officer of the Municipal Finance Authority of B.C.
Graham Lackey

UPDATE: High-risk repeat sex offender arrested in Hope

Graham Lackey was apprehended in Memorial Park on Friday night shortly after his release

Graham Lackey
Material recovery facilities typically use manual sorters as well as various machines

Metro Vancouver compromises on new recycling policy

Regional district's revised rules still unworkable, says sorting plant proponent

Material recovery facilities typically use manual sorters as well as various machines

High risk sex offender will be living in Chilliwack-Hope area

A public warning has been issued regarding Graham Lackey, described by the Ministry of Justice as a high risk repeat sex offender.

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